Global industry advocacy group World Forum Offshore Wind (WFO) has created a new working group to focus on the international floating market with the goal of accelerating the rapidly emerging sector’s international build-out, Recharge can reveal.

The WFO’s Floating Offshore Wind Committee (FOWC), which the group said has some “really big industrial names committed and signed up” but not yet disclosed, will be targeting areas including education and policy-making, cost reduction and commercial-scale deployment, health and safety standards, and the development of engagement with environmental and maritime stakeholders.